CEO SUMMARY: In a federal case involving billing improprieties and insurance fraud, a federal judge sentenced Michigan dermatologist Robert W. Stokes, M.D., to 126 months in prison and ordered him to pay $178,100 in fines and assessments, with the amount of restitution yet to be determined. Stokes was tried in federal court last April facing […]
Mich. Dermatologist Gets 10.5 Years in Fraud Case
Federal prosecutors cite five-year pattern of fraud totaling an estimated $1.9 million
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XV No. 3 - March 3, 2008 Issue
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